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The Wiz

Thanks to a soundtrack by music legend Quincy Jones, an all-star cast featuring Michael Jackson, Diana Ross and Richard Pryor, there's a whole generation that only knows how to ease on down the road. This movie version of the Tony winning Broadway play, an urban retelling of 1939's TheWizard of Oz, is the original funkytown.
(photo: courtesy Universal Pictures)